Patents by Inventor Jack Leighton Ries

Jack Leighton Ries has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8242927
    Abstract: An LED fixture includes multiple LED drivers and multiple LED lamps so that the lifetime of the fixture is a multiple of the lifetime of a conventional fixture that uses only a single LED driver. A central controller activates and deactivates the LED drivers so that the different LED lamps are driven sequentially. An optional multi-lamp LED driver concurrently drives multiple LED lamps that have been previously driven by the LED drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Jack Leighton Ries, II
  • Patent number: 8237581
    Abstract: An LED fixture includes multiple LED drivers and a multi-chip LED package so that the lifetime of the fixture is a multiple of the lifetime of a conventional fixture that uses only a single LED driver. A central controller activates and deactivates the LED drivers so that different subsets of LEDs within the LED package are driven sequentially. An optional multi-chip LED driver concurrently drives multiple subsets of LEDs that were previously driven by the LED drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Jack Leighton Ries, II
  • Patent number: 8237582
    Abstract: An LED fixture includes multiple LED drivers and a multi-chip LED package so that the lifetime of the fixture is a multiple of the lifetime of a conventional fixture that uses only a single LED driver. A distributed controller activates and deactivates the LED drivers so that different subsets of LEDs within the LED package are driven sequentially. An optional multi-chip LED driver concurrently drives multiple subsets of LEDs that were previously driven by the LED drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Jack Leighton Ries, II
  • Patent number: 7839295
    Abstract: An LED fixture includes multiple LED drivers and multiple LED lamps so that the lifetime of the fixture is a multiple of the lifetime of a conventional fixture that uses only a single LED driver. A distributed controller activates and deactivates the LED drivers so that the different LED lamps are driven sequentially. An optional multi-lamp LED driver concurrently drives multiple LED lamps that have been previously driven by the LED drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Jack Leighton Ries, II
  • Publication number: 20090128054
    Abstract: An LED fixture includes multiple LED drivers and multiple LED lamps so that the lifetime of the fixture is a multiple of the lifetime of a conventional fixture that uses only a single LED driver. A central controller activates and deactivates the LED drivers so that the different LED lamps are driven sequentially. An optional multi-lamp LED driver concurrently drives multiple LED lamps that have been previously driven by the LED drivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventor: Jack Leighton Ries, II
  • Publication number: 20090128060
    Abstract: An LED fixture includes multiple LED drivers and a multi-chip LED package so that the lifetime of the fixture is a multiple of the lifetime of a conventional fixture that uses only a single LED driver. A central controller activates and deactivates the LED drivers so that different subsets of LEDs within the LED package are driven sequentially. An optional multi-chip LED driver concurrently drives multiple subsets of LEDs that were previously driven by the LED drivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventor: Jack Leighton Ries, II
  • Publication number: 20090128052
    Abstract: An LED fixture includes multiple LED drivers and a multi-chip LED package so that the lifetime of the fixture is a multiple of the lifetime of a conventional fixture that uses only a single LED driver. A distributed controller activates and deactivates the LED drivers so that different subsets of LEDs within the LED package are driven sequentially. An optional multi-chip LED driver concurrently drives multiple subsets of LEDs that were previously driven by the LED drivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventor: Jack Leighton Ries, II
  • Publication number: 20090091467
    Abstract: An LED fixture includes multiple LED drivers and multiple LED lamps so that the lifetime of the fixture is a multiple of the lifetime of a conventional fixture that uses only a single LED driver. A distributed controller activates and deactivates the LED drivers so that the different LED lamps are driven sequentially. An optional multi-lamp LED driver concurrently drives multiple LED lamps that have been previously driven by the LED drivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventor: Jack Leighton Ries, II
  • Patent number: 6175487
    Abstract: An electrical assembly adapted for use with a luminaire includes a housing formed of metal and having an interior surface defining a cavity therein. The electrical assembly further includes an unimpregnated ballast which is oriented within the cavity and which has coil leads projecting therefrom, the ballast encapsulated within a thickened mixture of curable thermoset polymer resin and finely divided inorganic particulate. the finely divided inorganic particulate and the thermosettable polymer resin is preferably provided in, respectively, a 3:1 ratio by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: NSI Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: John Charles McCartney, Jack Leighton Ries, Mark Frederick Keller
  • Patent number: D418938
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Holophane Corporation
    Inventors: John Charles McCartney, Jack Leighton Ries, Mark Frederick Keller
  • Patent number: D882146
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Bruce N. Layne, William E. Budzileni, Jack Leighton Ries, II, William King Pixler, Bulent Erel